Mario Cucinella

Mario Cucinella was born in Palermo in 1960 and is an Italian architect, designer and academic, who is particularly known for his environmentally sustainable buildings. He studied in Genoa with Giancarlo De Carlo in 1986 and in the following years collaborated with Renzo Piano in his building workshop in Genoa and Paris. In 1992 he founded his own office in Paris, Mario Cucinella Architects (MCA), followed by Bologna in 1999. MCA now has a team of 90 professionals with diverse expertise, including architecture, engineering, urban and regional planning and industrial design. The firm's mission is to create projects with a reduced environmental impact as part of a continuous effort to save energy.